A new research study by KPMG LLP and HfS Research finds that six out of 10 organizations will turn to global business services (GBS) over standalone outsourcing and shared services…
The Best Business Books of 2013 – Truly
It’s that time of year again! Various business publications, organizations, companies, and content providers release their annual lists of best business books. It’s interesting to see the books that consistently…
New Survey Reveals That 80% Don't See Supply Chain As Enabler of Strategy
Manufacturing.Net has carried a story by Hitachi Consulting that reveals that their recent survey indicates “that 80 percent of supply chain managers do not see their supply chain as an…
Resources for Supplier Identification
Identifying potential suppliers, especially for new products or services, can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience. Searching the “open” web many times produces a large number of results that simply…
Nine Tech Trends That Will Generate Billions of Dollars
Business Insider’s Julie Bort writes about nine trends that market research firm IDC predicts “will unfold next year – and generate billions of dollars.” Here they are: People and companies…
Corbus and LexisNexis: A Market Intelligence Collaboration
Corbus, founded in 1994, is an Information Technology, Sourcing and Procurement services provider which is based in Dayton, Ohio. They have just announced that they are collaborating with LexisNexis and…
Cloud Computing Forecasts
Louis Columbus provides, on his blog A Passion for Research, an excellent roundup of cloud computing forecasts (summarized) from analyst and consulting firms Gartner, McKinsey & Company, IDC, Informatica, KPMG,…
A Realistic Picture of the IT Labor Market
In a recent Staffing Stream post, Krista Palmisano, lead research analyst, labor market analytics, for Allegis Group Services, shares an interesting infographic that illustrates the challenging sourcing conditions for IT…
The Everything Store Wins Business Book Award
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone, has been named the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. The award “recognizes the book…
Leveraging Information to Develop Sound Risk Management Strategies
On November 7, IASTA and LexisNexis presented a timely webinar, hosted by ISM, that gave sound advice on how to effectively use and implement Supply Market Intelligence (SMI) to develop…